Example sentences of "much [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We accept that we might not get very much for it , but on the other hand we could get more , ’ says Julie Widlake . |
| 2 | But the intelligence must rest on a broad basis of education or the machine element will prove too much for it . |
| 3 | It becomes increasingly ill at ease until eventually the din and the intrusions become too much for it and it flaps off to find a quieter spot somewhere else . |
| 4 | ‘ So the deal is , with all the fast playing , I thought it was very good and I 'm very much for it , but it should be the icing on the cake . |
| 5 | They just could n't pay quite as much for it . |
| 6 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 7 | ‘ Somebody must think so , if they paid that much for it . ’ |
| 8 | Blanche was proud of her tenacious progress in the Metropolitan Police and had sacrificed much for it — children , so far ; social life ; feminine sensitivity . |
| 9 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I paid far too much for it the first time , so I 've put a really low reserve on it now . |
| 11 | That 's why they pay six times as much for it . |
| 12 | An outstanding victory for the French Airforce , the effort seemed however to prove too much for it . |
| 13 | Getting used to it now though , it do n't bother me really I did n't do much for it anyway so |
| 14 | oh thank you , I do n't think I 'll get that , too much for it and I got the guy I went out to see Lee he came in |
| 15 | because she paid so much for it , over fifteen pounds right , because she paid so much for it because they 're usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive . |
| 16 | because she paid so much for it , over fifteen pounds right , because she paid so much for it because they 're usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive . |
| 17 | She if you 've only had to have an you ca n't just say ooh watch your and er every time we 've away you take four times as much as it , it 's possible to wear ! |
| 18 | It 's very much worth it d' ya know . |
| 19 | For one thing , the criticism could easily rebound on the people who run these places , when in most cases they know how bad things are themselves but they ca n't do much about it . |
| 20 | Frequently there is no contact number , so even if we like the music , we ca n't do much about it . |
| 21 | I did n't know much about it . |
| 22 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 23 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 24 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 25 | I suppose this was partly to do with the heat — it is very hot here at present — but to tell you the truth I do n't remember very much about it . |
| 26 | Some will have associated direction with Catholic rather than evangelical tradition and for that reason will not know much about it . |
| 27 | I do n't know why the people who argued so much about it did n't go and ask these three what had happened . |
| 28 | No one knew much about it except that it was always there and so accepted . |
| 29 | I would defy even Elizabeth Kubler-Ross , an American ‘ death expert ’ , who was shown on TV recently , to know much about it . |
| 30 | Only we do n't hear so much about it . ’ |